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"Antisemitic cartoons have long been rife in the Arab-Muslim media. The September 2001 Durban Conference against Racism, intended to denounce and combat racism in all its forms, also featured the distribution of antisemitic cartoons by an Arab organisation, yet this elicited no reaction from the delegates representing Western NGOs at the conference. This event set the author on a trail that revealed thousands of such drawings. In the name of anti-Zionism, Jews are daily depicted as sadistic and bloodthirsty monsters, solely interested in money and power. This return to anti-Jewish hatred is of a new order, in line with current trends - an Arab-Muslim form of antisemitism unexpectedly metamorphosed from the type of antisemitism traditionally linked with the Christian West." By reproducing more than 400 of these cartoons taken from both the Arab and Western media, this book denounces the use of hatred in the media.

Preface Moshe Kantor Kantor, Moshe

Foreword Alan Dershowitz Dershowitz, Alan

Foreword Abraham H. Foxman Foxman, Abraham H.

Foreword Anthony Julius Julius, Anthony

Introduction: Cartoons, Humour and Extremism

Ch. 1 The prevailing myth in the Christian West from 1144 to 1946: The vampire, cannibal and child-slaughtering Jew 1

Ch. 2 The new Arab-Muslim Judeophobia 23

Ch. 3 Arab cartoons since 2000 37

Ch. 4 Return of the myth of the Jews as ogres and vampires 108

Ch. 5 Anti-Zionism as a cultural code: Israel, the scapegoat and metaphor for modernity 150

Epilogue 172

App. 1 It is possible co criticize Israel without giving way co antisemitism: some examples 174

App. 2 Some unacceptable anti-Palestinian cartoons 175

App. 3 The usual suspects: the Jews behind the Muhammad cartoons 177

App. 4 Arab Cartoonists' Response To Gaza Violence 193

Main Arab daily and weekly newspapers 197

Bibliography

Notes 198